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Varun Kumar is an Engineering Leader and Architect with more than 14 years of experience helping organizations of all sizes and scales in their Cloud migration, transformation, and modernization Journeys. It covers articles focused on the latest updates on Azure and AWS, the how-to part and why art of using different offerings from Cloud providers, er, and the differences in similar offerings.
Cloud Avenue
9M ago
AWS offers a wide range of compute services, each with its unique features and pricing models. While compute resources are essential for running applications, it’s crucial to optimize costs and avoid overspending. In this blog post, we will explore strategies and best practices for optimizing AWS compute costs, helping you strike the right balance between performance and expenditure.
1. Right-sizing Instances: Choosing the appropriate instance type is key to cost optimization. Analyze your application’s resource requirements and match them with the right-sized instance. Avoid overprovisioning ..read more
Cloud Avenue
9M ago
Running a database on the cloud offers immense flexibility and scalability, but it’s crucial to optimize costs to ensure you get the most value out of your investment. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on AWS provides a managed database solution that allows you to optimize costs while maintaining high performance. In this blog post, we will explore several strategies to help you optimize RDS costs on AWS, enabling you to maximize efficiency and savings.
To optimize RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) costs on AWS, you can consider the following strategies:
1. Right-sizing Instances ..read more
Cloud Avenue
10M ago
In today’s world, data is the new oil. Companies, irrespective of their size and domain, are collecting data at an unprecedented pace. The primary challenge for most organizations is not the availability of data but the ability to make sense of it. This is where business intelligence (BI) tools come in handy. Microsoft Power BI is a powerful BI tool that helps organizations gain insights from their data. One of the key features of Power BI is its data modelling capabilities. In this blog, we will take a closer look at Power BI data modelling and its significance in the BI world.
What is Power ..read more
Cloud Avenue Blog
10M ago
The term load balancing refers to the distribution of workloads across multiple computing resources. Load balancing aims to optimize resource use, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid overloading any single resource. It can also improve availability by sharing a workload across redundant computing resources.
Azure provides various load balancing services that you can use to distribute your workloads across multiple computing resources – Application Gateway, Front Door, Load Balancer, and Traffic Manager.
Azure provides various services to manage network traffic and ..read more
Cloud Avenue Blog
10M ago
A complete end-to-end guide to implement Azure Functions and serverless orchestration with the help of various use cases.
Key Features
● Step-by-step guide along with code snippets and screenshots to master the topics.
● Easy handbook to brush up the fundamental concepts and advanced topics of Serverless computing.
● Includes real use-cases and numerous scenarios on creating Azure functions, its security, deployment, and troubleshooting them.
● Understand how to monitor, troubleshoot, and perform advanced level diagnostics on Azure functions ..read more
Cloud Avenue Blog
2y ago
It has been very frustrating when you are not able to focus during important meetings due to distractions caused by the Teams notifications. Thankfully, Microsoft has understood the customer’s pain and taken this into consideration. The new feature of Microsoft Teams allows users to mute notifications during their meetings. This should mean an end to the distraction from notifications when you’re in the middle of an important meeting.
To enable the settings, follow the 3 simple steps as below:
1. Go to Manage Account by clicking on your Profile Icon on top right of Microsoft Teams.
2. In the ..read more
Cloud Avenue Blog
2y ago
Power BI connectors allow you to connect to your Azure DevOps Project and visualize the Work Items data in your reports. This helps you create rich and insightful reports that can make tracking and decision making much easier. The powerful interactive reports created on Power BI with this data can help you in effective management reporting, linking and connecting data from other sources such as your project management tools and all data view at a single place. Some of the examples of such reports can be feature delivery report for all the teams quarterly, Bug’s report against each feature or E ..read more
Cloud Avenue
2y ago
Azure DevOps Analytics allows you to connect and get the Azure DevOps Work Items data on Power BI report based on filter criteria provided, very easily. It’s available as a Preview Feature in Azure DevOps. To enable the Analytics view and create custom analytics view, follow the below steps:
1. Click on the User Settings on the top left and click Preview Features.
2. On Preview Feature, Toggle Analytics View button to ON
2. Once done, you will see Analytics views option enabled in the Left menu of Azure DevOps
3. Click on Analytics View and it will open the Analytics View page. Click N ..read more
Cloud Avenue Blog
2y ago
Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration engine for management, deployment and scaling of containerized applications. Kubernetes provides a framework to run distributed systems resiliently and allowing canary deployments and releases. It provides in-built capabilities for service discovery, automated rollouts and rollbacks, self-healing, load balancing and much more. This blog is focused on the Ingress for Kubernetes Services.
Kubernetes Ingress
Ingress allows the services within the cluster to be exposed outside the cluster. It also provides load balancing capabilities f ..read more